The problem of compatibility of Naturalistic Essentialism and Social Constructivism for cognition and transformation of social objects

The paper shows that social constructivism, originally opposed to naturalistic essentialism, gets widespread as the methodology of cognition and transformation of social reality, which does not contain criteria that would specify limits of change of social objects. The author also considers the onto-gnoseological characteristics of naturalistic essentialism and social constructivism as a possible basis for their joint work in the cognition and construction of social objects - when they do not exclude but mutually restrict each other.

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